Showing posts with label rachel whittingham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rachel whittingham. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Privately by Cyra Elia

Privately was originally written by myself and Cyra around 2001 and featured Ian "Brooke" Marshall on guitar, Cyra on vocals and myself on keyboards. The track went down well at gigs but as a recording it just didn't meld. Two and half years ago I uploaded the original version as a download even though I wasn't happy with it. It wasn't long after when our old guitarist, original member Dave Sharples, heard it and contacted Cyra on Facebook and was hooked on it straight away. He had come up with some guitar hooks and sounds that he thought would compliment the track. In December 2007, Boxing Day, we met up for the first time since 1998 and headed straight to the studio to work on a new version.
New keyboards were layered, new vocals were recorded along with backing vocals and several new guitar tracks were applied to the original recording. After two days recording it was almost ready to mix down. After a few little edits, a snip here, a snip there, a few mind altering drugs... no wait, I can't remember that bit... anyhow, I give you "Privately".
Remember, if you like the track then please consider using the "Honesty Policy". All I ask for is a small donation (paid via PayPal)... I don't mind if it's a cent, a nickle, a dime, a dollar, a quid, a euro. Half of all donations go to Breast Cancer Research charity.






Sunday, February 22, 2009

Blimey... back from the dead?

Greeeeets.... it's been a while :)
Ok, I'm back. Things have changed too... apart from writing new ambient material I've also dipped back into my band roots too. I've been remastering a few of my old tracks and even re-recorded some too. The latest is a track called "Puppetmaster" which was originally written over ten years ago with my old band "Cyra Elia". We split up over ten years ago so in reality Puppetmaster is a lot older than I remember... I have problems remembering what I had for breakfast most days!
Anyhow, the track has been totally redone and features the original guitarist and vocalist (Dave Sharples and Rachel Whittingham) and sounds fabulous. I'm allowed to biased ;)

The track is available for free... but if you like it (or even think it sucks) then please consider a small donation... even if it's just a quid, a euro, a dollar or a button, your donation will go towards my beer fund. Erm.